About

Welcome to Shine Photo

Our aim is to provide you with a unique experience, that’s as much about ‘play’ as it is about business. Your images are important to us and when you look at the finished product, we want you to remember what a fabulous time you had with us having them taken. Our studio is bright and comfortable; your friends are welcome to join you; and the coffee is always on. Most importantly, we will coach you, and work with you to bring out the very best ‘you’ and make you feel comfortable in front of the camera. Our services include:

General Portraiture Services, including family, children and high school seniors

Professional head-shots

Achievement photos (dance, sports, music etc.)

Private boudoir and pin-up art sessions

Full digital retouching, & artwork

Directory services (Books, web and mobile based directories)

Photo Lounges for events

Community commercial and charity work

High Volume Photography – Teams, clubs and sports groups

Google Business View photos

Our aim is to make your experience as fun and as memorable as the photos themselves.

All About Shine

Mission: Shine Photo is an imaginative, full service photography studio aimed at offering high-style, moderately priced, and exceptionally creative images. We view ourselves as partners with our customers, our employees, our community and our environment. We aim to become a nationally recognized brand name, capitalizing on the visual nature of the human experience. Our goal is moderate growth, annual profitability and maintaining a sense of humor while providing an extraordinary product. Philosophy: We believe that heirloom products begin with clean, images with strong emotional impact. These images can then be enhanced and combined to create imaginative art that brings out the ‘you’ as you dream yourself to be, both now and in the future. We want our subject to truly ‘shine,’ and our products to be the art that you’ll be proud to hand down to future generations.

We have two locations to serve you. Our studio is located in the Old Crawford Street School in an up-cycled classroom. It’s bright, warm and private and has all the comforts of home. We have change rooms, salon stations, a baby change station, kitchenette and a closet full of props & costumes. The comforts are rounded out with top of the line studio lighting and gear, multiple cloth, paper and solid backgrounds and a full background projection system. We also have a satellite location on Saturdays at the Thunder Bay Country Market, located on the second floor in the Dove Building on the CLE grounds. Here we tackle mini and high volume sessions such as passports, team pictures, child safethy kits (fingerprints and photo cards) and mini limited edition sessions for children. Check our Facebook page or Events Calendar for weekly offerings.

Shine Photo uses the largest professional lab in the United States for all of it’s product processing. The advantage of this is that we can offer exceptional products, not available in Canada, and the absolute highest quality in print at an excellent price point. Products include:

Nancy Tillberg, is the owner of Shine Photo and the digital portrait artist behind the images on these pages. She developed an interest in photography in 1999, and her photos were first published by F&W Media in 2003. As an avid learner, she is constantly seeking out new information, tools and techniques to improve her photography skills and take her images to a new level. “I am constantly in a creative state, often becoming inspired by typical everyday events and expressions. Sometimes I think that the creative side of my brain is in hyper-drive, but when I focus on photography, I’m able to reign in some of that energy and put it to good use.” Nancy specializes in expression. Whether it’s for family, children, high school seniors or professional head shots her goal is an expression in the portrait art that draws the viewer in, while revealing the subject’s true personality. Nancy also has an extensive background in teaching workshops both online and in person. She is the author of two books and numerous ebooks. Photography workshops are available in the studio for both the avid and beginner shutterbug. When not spending time in the studio, Nancy leads a busy life as a wife, mother and full time employee with the City of Thunder Bay.